Washing machine



June 1 1926. 1,587,235

' J. W. JACKSON WASHING MACHINE Filed August '7, 1925 Patented June 1, 1926.

UNITED STATES Joint w. moxson, or DALLAS, rExAs.

WASHING MACHINE.

Application filed August 7, 1925. Serial No. 48,742.

i This invention relates to improvements in steam washers for clothes and 1t relates to certain novel features of arrangement of the parts thereof.

In the class of steam Washers to which the invention relates there is provided a boiler and a heater combination, the boiler having a cone-shaped plunger member for lifting and moving the clothes and .also a cone-shaped bottom member which traps a certain amount of water to enable the water to heat rapidly.

. It has been found in experience, however, that the plunger member is somewhat awkward in operation in handling varying amounts of clothes and also that the coneshaped element is lifted from its seat durin violent boiling of the clothes.

. It is, therefore, an ob'ect of the invention to improve these parts y certain novel arrangements of construction whereby the plunger member is adjustable for handling,

varying amounts of clothes, the cone-shaped element being arranged so as to insure it keeping its seat during the boiling operation.

With the above objects in view, the invention will be clearly understood by reference to the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, and wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a washer embodying the invention, partly in. section.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the cone-shaped member.

Figures 3 and 4 are cross-sectional viewstaken along lines 3-3 and 4- 1 of Figure 2. Figure 5 is a plan view of the operating lever for reciprocating the plunger; and

Figure 6 is a fragmentary side elevational view of Figure Referring more in detail to the various parts of the invention, 1 denotes the boiler section and 2 a heater with partition 3.

The boiler 1 has a vacuum plunger cup 4 carried on a rod 5'and a cone;shaped water circulating element 6. The heater has a smoke outlet 7'and is supported on legs 8-8. The improved features consist of the adjustment provided by the arrangement of an operating lever 9 with hand purchase 10 the lever being pivoted to a bar 11, in. turn pivoted to a lug 12 on the periphery of the boiler section 1. This lever 9 is shown in detail in Figure 5 with its connecting parts in Figure 6. The lever 9 is connected by bolts 1313 to two spaced bars 14-14t formin the remaining part of the lever. These Ioars have spacers 15-15 and are loosely connected to the bar 11 previously referred to. At the point A the bars are curved, the two parts forming an opening for the rod 5 which has spaced perforations 5* and reciprocates by means of the lever through the hole in the top of the boiler. Any one of these holes may receive the bolt 17 for adjusting the stroke of the vacuum plunger rod 5. A spring clip 18 is pivoted to one of the barsl l and'holds the bolt in place. When adjustment of the bolt is desired the spring clip is moved aside as shown in dotted lines in Figure 6.

In Figure 2 is shown the'means employed for holdin the cone-shaped element 6 in position. t will be observed that the boiler has a crimp in its periphery at 19 which is for the purpose of receiving the spaced lugs 20-20 of the element 6, and a slight pressure .will spring the lugs into place and successfully hold this element in the position shown, just off the bottom or partition 3. The depending flange of the spacing element 6 is provided with circumferential- 1y spaced openings 21 while the apex is formed with an opening 16, so that free circulation of water is assured. This latter arrangement prevents the clothes from burning and permits free circulation of the water around the sides through said holes. The boiler has a cover 22 held in position by a spring catch'23;

From the foregoing it is obvious that the cone-shaped spacing element 6 is removably opening at its apex and having a periph-.

eral depending flange also provided with positioned within the groove 19 of the boiler spaced openings, a series of laterally and and the spaces between the lugs and adradially extending lugs integral with and jacentthe grooves constituting passageways projecting at spaced intervals from the pefor allowing free circulation of liquid. 1

\ riphery of the cone-shaped element and en- In testimony whereof I have signed my 6 gageable with the groove so as to rigidly name to this specification. yet removably support the element in spaced relation to the bottom of the boiler, JOHN W. JACKSON. 

